To give a sense of the scale of this claim: If correct, Zhang's work is the most significant progress towards the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis in a century. Moreover, I think this result would not only be a more significant advance than Zhang's previous breakthrough, but also constitute a larger leap for number theory than Wiles' 1994 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (which was, in my opinion, the greatest single achievement by an individual mathematician in the 20th century).

Some discussion / explanation of Siegel zeros and Zhang's claim can be found here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a86/eliundergradua...

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resul...

An account of Zhang's remarkable story (and his previous breakthrough) can be found here. Famously, prior to his breakthrough, he worked at Subway and lived in his car:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

I can read the `news` news in many places, and I do,
but I like to come here for industry and niche
technical topics.

Many I've spoken to share this
sentiment and I hope this is of benefit to anyone
wishing to focus more on what they are interested in.

You can block a source or keywords with the same rule:

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/{phrase1}|{phrase2}/):nth-ancestor(1)

e.g. a brief sample of sites that are not principally
about technology and recur somewhat frequently
(choose your own):

  news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/businessinsider.com|dailymail.co.uk|foxnews.com|theverge.com|cnn.com|reuters.com|zerohedge.com|insider.com|bloomberg.com|euronews.com|theguardian.com|wsj.com|ft.com|theconversation.com|thetimes.co.uk|bbc.co.uk|nytimes.com|newyorker.com|theatlantic.com/):nth-ancestor(1)

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/web3|crypto/):nth-ancestor(1)

This rule isn't perfect as it only removes the title
line and keeps the number of comments, but it is
definitely good enough and I am enjoying reading HN a
great deal more.

You can add these to your Android phone too with Firefox
and uBO.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/

I work remotely and as a immigrant I have no family to hold on to. So I can live in another state if I want. Still, I like California (after spending time in several other states) and I guess I'm looking for a reason not to have to leave.

Do you scare of earthquakes? If you do, what keep you from moving already (except for obvious reasons like jobs and family)? If you work remotely and can live anywhere in the US [2], where would you live?

[1] The Really Big One http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

[2] If you think another country is better, please check out this question instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037690

Some examples I’ve enjoyed:

“Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” - Gay Talese, Esquire 1965
<https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/>

“Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” - John Updike, The New Yorker 1960
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/10/22/hub-fans-bid-kid-adieu>

“The Last Meal” - Michael Paterniti, Esquire 2008
<https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4642/the-last-meal-0598/>

Hi, I think you already know that when you click on the post link of a story, all stories from that top level domain appears.

If there is a video from YouTube, then, if I click on

    (youtube.com)

The API call looks like

    from?site=YouTube.com

Say, I want to see all stories from New Yorker, ranked based on votes those stories received, what do I do?

I know this part-

    https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com

Or is there a completely different way to do this?

Have e.g. AWS received similar orders for keys used with ELBs? Or anything on the EC2 VMs? Or CloudFlare?

When I upload my private key to these services, does it go straight to the NSA keystore? Or do they only seize certain keys? Or no keys at all and I can take off my tinfoil hat now? Can we know?

What happens when an NSA employee is disgruntled / makes a mistake / becomes a mole / whatever and leaks the entire keystore?

Did we all already know? Should I stop tinfoiling? Should we trust that they don't do this? Should I never have been such a lazy moron as to use any such services?

Sigh

For the record I believe the government should be able to do warrant-based eavesdropping etc of specific individuals - it's the dragnet aspect to this whole mess that just breaks my heart. So there's no need to put me on that list you got there Mr USG...

Sigh^2

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6517553
[2]: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-lavabit-edward-snowden-email-service-melted-down.html

Is it worth posting something like this to Hacker News? HN readers who subscribe to The New Yorker probably caught the article anyway; for others, obtaining access is costly. But the article, if it were freely available, would clearly be of interest to the HN community. And HN readers who do have access to the article might enjoy using HN as a forum to discuss it.

Another possibility is to wait to post the article until it's made freely available; Malcolm Gladwell apparently posts everything he writes for The New Yorker to http://malcolmgladwell.com/ six months after first publication.

"Different celestial sources emit their own sorts of gravitational waves, which means that LIGO and its successors could end up hearing something like a cosmic orchestra. 'The binary neutron stars are like the piccolos,' Reitze said. Isolated spinning pulsars, he added, might make a monochromatic 'ding' like a triangle, and black holes would fill in the string section, running from double bass on up, depending on their mass. LIGO, he said, will only ever be able to detect violins and violas; waves from supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of the Milky Way, will have to await future detectors, with different sensitivities."

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them

Has it changed your viewpoint on the idea that something cheap(er) and good enough can upend existing business behemoths?

Here is a nice summary article [3]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

[2] http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-useful-is-the-theory-of-disruptive-innovation/

[3] https://chronicle.com/article/The-Undoing-of-Disruption/233101/?key=QD1yIFY4MSBAMX9naz5HMD8HaCNvMR5yYXMba3kiblpTGA==

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire

I really enjoyed it and it reminded me of another fantastic long-form piece “Mastermind”:

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

Although very different stories they both feature enigmatic idealists fluent in technology that ultimately make poor decisions.

What other similar stories are out there involving crime and technology? I’d love to read more stories like these.

[30 Jan 2017] Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich)

…

[6 Mar 2020] Coronavirus ‘fuelling spike in doomsday bunker sales as mega-rich build virus-free panic rooms (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11114776/coronavirus-spike-doomsday-bunker/)

[21 Apr 2020] Panicky super-rich flee to luxury doomsday bunkers in New Zealand to escape coronavirusm (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11444200/panicky-super-rich-flee-to-luxury-nz-bunkers/)

[21 Apr 2020] ‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plans)

[15 May 2020] Super-rich buying underground bunkers with SHOOTING RANGES over fears coronavirus will spark social meltdown (https://www.the-sun.com/news/833092/super-rich-underground-bunkers-shooting-ranges/)

[15 May 2020] How the super-rich spent lockdown (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-52669638/how-the-super-rich-spent-lockdown)

[19 May 2020] Ultra-wealthy purchasing bunkers with underground shooting ranges amid coronavirus meltdown fears (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/ultra-wealthy-purchasing-bunkers-with-underground-shooting-ranges-amid-coronavirus-meltdown-fears)

1. Let normal users, who don't have bots, have a reasonable chance at a reservation.
2. Kill the secondary market for tickets, or at the very least, allow restaurants themselves to keep the revenue generated from people willing to pay more rather than a 3rd party.

One approach would be to add people to a queue and randomize who gets a reservation. They could be bucketed by when they reserved (say, to the 1 hour) and selected from there. That could help with bots.

But it's not clear to me how you'd work on the secondary market - would you require a photo id for each reservation? A specialized app that's tied to your identity (phone, google oauth?)

How would it work? And for restaurants who are already using other platforms (Resy, Tock, OpenTable, etc) what would it take for them to switch?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-you-cant-get-a-restaurant-reservation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/can-cyrus-vance-jr-nail-trump

No people don't care about privacy, if they do facebook, google, ... all other privacy rapper style corporate should not exist.

And the point is that people should not have to care about their privacy because UN should protect them .. just like their government.

When I click on "Discuss," I don't get an option to add a comment elaborating on this. Is this a spam-protection mechanism, or something account-specific?

[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice%28PsychologicalReview%29.pdf

[2] http://allaboutwork.org/2012/11/21/malcolm-gladwells-10000-hour-rule-doesnt-add-up/

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html

Here's some background information for those not in the know:

spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-bitcoin-for-is-a-coup

https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1?1

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/inside-the-fight-over-bitcoins-future

http://www.coindesk.com/btcchina-support-gives-bip-100-bitcoin-hashrate-majority/

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115178/8-leading-bitcoin-companies-pledge-support-for-bip101-bitcoin-exchange-rate-falls-below-200

Two years ago, HN was the first to pick up on a post I wrote about my son's preliminary diagnosis via experimental exome sequencing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038113

Two years ago, he was the only known NGLY1 deficient patient in the world.

By spreading the story, we've found 16 cases worldwide.

We've organized.

We've found preliminary treatments.

Clinical trials are in the pipeline.

In some cases, we've saved the lives of previously undiagnosed patients.

And, these children's cells are turning into gold mines for the basic science of glycobiology.

From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the entire small but optimistic NGLY1 community,

Thank you.